Abstract

First of all, this paper reviews the challenges that adolescent literature faces nowadays, its most common topics and motives and its pedagogical function. We shall shortly pay attention to the presence of this literature in the works of Macedonian authors and then we shall focus on this turbulent period in the novels for children and young people by Grozdana Olujik and Metodi Manev, the problems that their heroes are faced with; we shall make a comparison between the two families that the heroes come from and the love which takes the first place as a moving force among people. For that purpose, examples from the novels shall be elaborated, which shall assist in proving the thesis: regardless of which society we belong to, regardless of the social class, the adolescence is present everywhere. We shall be introduced to heroes who are in the period between childhood and maturity, heroes who want to show and prove themselves, to be at the center of attention. All of them go through this rough period of time or, with delay, they are faced with the changes so they are changed as well, and they gradually enter the maturity period, i.e. the world of adults